Completed two thirds of the 3,000 nautical miles that separates Lanzarote and Antigua, the Catalan navigator Pilar Pasanau navigates in fifth place in a fleet of 12 vessels in the Globe 5.80 transatCLASSIFICATORY REGATA FOR THE MINI GLOBE RACE. After the crossing of the Atlantic, its objective is to participate in this competition back to the world alone and with scales, but you need to raise more funds to be able to deal with the logistics and security requirements that this 15 -month circumnavigation implies on board the small vessels of 5.80 meters in length.
Veteran cruise navigator and the mini 650 class and captain of the merchant navy by profession, Pasanau attends to me from Lanzarote, a few hours after taking out of the Globe 5.80 Transat, while finalizing his Peter Punk for the crossing.
-How are you doing?
“Considered, very tired.” The stage from Portugal to Lanzarote consumed me. My problem is that I am too competitive, I give everything and more, as if there were no tomorrow. On the Atlantic journey I have to go more calmly.
“Did you have problems with the pilot?”
-Yeah. I have always sailed with electrical or hydraulic pilots, but this ship carries a wind pilot. I did the formations and looked enough tutorials, but I have not clarified. This pilot needs a constant quarter to go well.
—The plan is to go around the world aboard this ship and with this pilot …
“My dream has always been to go around the world alone.” I would have liked to make the Vendée, but the budget is exorbitant. Didac [Costa] He did it twice, he was a brave and we helped him among all as we could. When I saw this regatta, I was attracted to be a return to the low budget world. What happens is that in the end the security requirements are more or less the same, and that is a fairly high additional cost.
“Then, will you go around the world?”
—I will do the Globe 5.80 transat and I will reach ancient. The departure of the Mini Globe Race is February 23, I will have a few days to see if I have enough funds. They are helping me, for example from the Royal Maritime Club of Barcelona. I thought my budget would be enough for the whole adventure, but I have only been able to put the ship ready.
“The ship … I am fascinated to be self -constructed by the navigators themselves.”
“It’s not my case.” I bought the plans and the Faculty of Nautical of Barcelona supported me for construction, but I realized that two years were not enough, because I am there for a long time with the merchant marine. Some my friends have done so and have taken three years in an amateur way. So I bought the ship from an Swiss. He did built it, but then did not make the circumnavigation.
The 12 navigators who take part in the Atlantic Regatta
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“And how does it sail?”
“Very slow, it’s very small.” I have sailed little in him, in the stage until Lanzarote I had to try trimmed. We will take about 33 days to cross the Atlantic, and 15 months to go around the world.
“With scales and west.”
“Yes, because we couldn’t load all the necessary food for 15 months on board.” You have to stop to refue. We are on the route of the Alisios on the Panama Canal and stop on the islands. There are 28,000 nautical miles in five stages, but we can make intermediate scales with a penalty of time.
“It’s a return to the long world.”
“Among one thing and another, 18 months away from home.” I have requested an leave to be able to go around the world. And here I am, in my seventh Atlantic journey and without knowing if I can later fulfill my dream.
—What is the goal in the 5.80 transat?
“Be for the group in front to talk about me and get a sponsor.”
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